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rinnnnssoennr r comment or WILMINGTO1\T,, DEIQAVIAR'E, A oonronn r on orr DELAWARE VPRINTING MACHINE Application filed December 3, 1927.. SerialNo. 237,426;

V invention particularly relates to means for;

grouping the addressed magazines according 10 to a predeterminedclassification. 7 For example, if the magazlnes are to be sent tovarious towns itv is desirable: that the L magazines for each townbegrouped to-' gether and bundled for delivery to that par:

handling and in shipping, and avoids the necessity of sorting themagazines oilice. w

The grouping of the magazines is. accom- 29 plished by providing a tabon the first or the last printing device within a series for a group.Every printing device sotabbed will cause the grouping mechanism tooperate a jogger and jog'one magazine in the 25 are being carried fromthe machine, and the jogged magazine will indicate the beginning or theending of a group. I This enables the 30 zines in removing them from themachine and each group may then be separately bundled for shipping'anddelivery. Y

The invention may be applied to various and claimed in our copend-ingapplications, Serial No,212, i24 and 212,425, both filed August 12,,1927. v

The primary object of the invention is to provide novel automaticgrouper controlled by certain address printing devices whereby ticulartown. This method saves time in at the post continually moving lineofmagazines as they operator to readily sort the grouped magatypes ofmachines but it is particularly adapted for machines such as aredl'scloseCl'.

construction, which can be readily and eco noin-ically manufactured, andwhich isa'da pted to be chines.

m- NT QFFICEFJS Josnrn s. nnNoANANn I-IEN'RY nQnnBBARn, 0F onions-o,LLINOIS; nssxenons 'ro pp to existing printin Thev invention has otherobjects in View in cidental tothese primary objects which will appearhereafter in the detail description of a selected embodiment of theinvention chosen for illustration in the accompanying drawings in whichthe viewsvare as follows:

F ig, 1 is a front elevation of a printing machine with the inventionapplied thereto. 'Fig. 2 is a plan View of the machine shown in Fig.1.

-Fig. 3 is. a detail Saran view on the ha 3-3 of Fig. 2.

- Fig. 4 is a similarview on the line L-4 'of Fig. 2. i r

Figs. 5 and 7 are enlargeddetail sectional views on the line 5-5 of Fig.2 showing some parts in different positions.

Figs. 6 and 8 areenlarged detail sectional views showing the-latch leverand some of the cooperating partsin different positions.

Fig. 91s an enlarged detail front elevat1on showing the Jogger and itsoperating mechanism.

Fig. 1 0 is a longitudinal sectional view of some of the parts shown inFig. 9. Fig. 11 is'a transverse sectional some of the parts shown inFig. 9.

Referring to the drawings 1 designates the printing machine such as isdisclosed in the aforesaid copending applications and it has aframe 2and a bed 3. A cam shaft 4 mount ed in the frame and driven fromthe'd'rive shaft 5', drives the longitudinal shaft 6:

through the chain of gears 7 and the bevel gear 8-, Fig. 1.

Anaddress printing device magazine 9' on the frame carries a stack ofprinting devices 10 which are adapted to be fed interview of mittentlyone at a time from the bottom of the. stack to printingposition. Theprinting devices are of the; usual type and-pass through certainselectormcchanism where they are either selected to be printed or to beskipped. Some of the devices are provided with a tablO which controlsthe Each printing device rides over and depresses the pawl. If theprinting device is not provided with a tab the pawl returns to upposition immediately after the printing device rides off of the pawl ifthe printing device has a tab 10 this tab will continue to hold the pawldepressed after the printing device proper has ridden off of the pawland while it is temporarily at rest in position adjacent the pawl. Thiscontinued depression of the pawl sets in operation the parts whichresult in jogging the magazine which receives an address impression fromthe printing device having the tab.

The tripper pawl 11, Figs. 3, 4, 6 and 8, is carried by a tripper 12having a notched end 13 which is engaged by a lug 14 on the latch lever15 pivoted at 15. A spring 16 holds the tripper in normal position inengagement with the latch lever when the tripper pawl 11 is in itsraised position as shown in Figs. 3 and 6. j

A rod 17 is connected at one end to the upper end of the latch lever 15and at its other end to an arm 18 rigid on the rock shaft 19,

-. Figs. 3 and 4. lVhen the tripper is disengaged from the latch lever aspring 20 connected to the rod 17 and to the frame, Fig. 3, pulls therod and the latch lever to the position shown in Fig. 4, and at the sametime rocks the rock shaft 19 for operating the jogging mechanism.

The rock shaft 19 is mounted in suitable hearings on the machine frameand has fixed thereto an angle lever 21 to which is pivoted a roller 22engaging a restoring cam 23 fixed to the longitudinal shaft 6, Figs. 4,5 and 7. A link 24 has one end pivoted at 25 to the angle lever and itsother end pivoted at 26 to the pawl releasing arm 27 which is pivoted onthe stud shaft 28 mounted in the casting 28 fixed to the bed of theframe. Through these parts the pawl 11 is normally held in up position,Fig. 6, the roller 22 being in normal position out of operative relationto the restoring cam, Fig. 5, and the tripper 12 being engaged with thelatch lever 15, Fig. 6. When the pawl 11 is depressed by the tab 10,Fig. 8, the tripper 12 is disengaged from the latch lever and the roller22 is held in operative engagement with the restoring cam by spring 20,Fig. 7

A sleeve 29, Fig. 10, is loosely mounted on the longitudinal shaft 6 andcarries a jogger cam 29, having a stud 30thereon upon which a pawl 31 ispivoted and carries a pawl roller 32, Figs. 5, 7, 9. A sleeve 33 ispinned on the shaft 6 between the restoring cam 23 and the jogger cam 29and it has a slot 34 therein ifllich is adapted to receive the end 35 ofthe pawl 31. A spring 36 fastened to the jogger cam and to the pawl 31pulls the pawl towards the sleeve 33.

The jogger lever 37 is pivoted on the stud shaft 28 and carries a roller38 which is adapted to ride on the jogger cam 29 and operate the joggerlever, Figs. 5, 7, 9. A spring 37 is connected to the jogger lever 37and holds the roller 38 against the cam. A jogger 39 is provided with afoot 40 and is pivoted at 42, Figs. 5 and 7, to the upper end of thejogger lever 37. A spring 43 holds the jogger in operative position onthe bed of the machine to engage a magazine on the delivery tapes 58.

A cam 44 fixed to the sleeve 29 is adapted to bear against the roller 45on an arm 45 mounted on the discharge roller shaft 46, Fig. 9. 'As thehigh side 47 of the cam 44 strikes the roller 45 the shaft 46 is given apart turn causing the discharge rollers 48 mounted on the arms 48 fixedto the shaft 46 to be raised and allow the magazine to pass from themachine.- Stop fingers 50 on the finger bracket 49 pivotally mounted onthe shaft 46 are raised or lowered by means of the arm 51 carrying theroller 52 which contacts with the stop finger cam 53. A beveled gear 54fixed to the shaft 6 meshes with a gear 55 fixed to a transverse shaft56 carrying rollers 57 and driving tapes 58 which carry the magazinefrom the feeding end 59 of the machine through the various positions andoff the machine to a delivery rack 60, Fig. 2.

The operation of the device is as follows: Printing devices are stackedin the magazine 9 and certain of the devices are provided with tabs foroperating the jogging mechanism. Magazines, newspapers or other articlesto be addressed are fed through the machine to printing position andthen off the machine to the table or rack 60. All printing devices willdepress the tripper pawl 11 as they pass to printing position and thisdepression of the tripper pawl will disengage the tripper 12 from thelatch lever 15, but this is all that will happen unless the printingdevice is provided with a tab, because the high part of the restoringcam 23 which then engages the roller 22 is of suflicient length tocontinue this engagement while the printing device is riding over thetripper pawl. After the printing device rides off of this pawl thespring 16 restores the tripper and the pawl to normal position, Fig. 6.But when a printing device provided with a tab rides over the tripperpawl the tab will continue holding the tripper pawl in depressedposition long enough for the low part of the restoring cam to come intooperative relation with the roller 22 and thereupon the spring 20 willpull rod 17 to the right, Fig. 4, rocking the shaft 19 and swinging theangle lever 21 to carry the roller 22 into operative engagement with thelow part of the restoring cam and at the same time swinging the link 24and the pawl releasing arm 27 to permit spring 36 to swing pawl 31,which is pivoted on jogger cam 29 to engage the end 35 with slot 34 inthe sleeve 33 fixed to the longitudinal shaft 6. While the high part ofthe jogger cam 29 engages area-ma? the roller 38 on the jogger lever 37the. jogger; will remain in normal position, but immediately after the,pawlf31 becomes locked to the'sleeve .38 the low part of the jogger camengages the roller 38 and thereupon spring 37 causes the jogger leverand the jogger, to

move quickly from the position shown in F 1g. 5 to the position shown 1nFig. 7 and.

jog the magazine. Then the hi h part of the continuously revolving cam28 engages roller 22 and swings the angle lever 21 and rocks the shaft19, and the angle lever swings the link 24:.and the pawl releasing arm27 to release.

the pawl 31 from the sleeve 33 which brings the jogger cam to rest Withthe ogger in nor mal position shown in Fig.4. -Rockingthe shaft 19swings the arm 18 to the left from.

the position shown in broken lines in Fig. i to the position shown infull lines in Fig. sand swings the latch lever 15, permitting spring.

16 to reset the tripper and. tripper pawl in normal position, Figs. 3and. 6. It will be noted that while a'printing device without'a" tabwilldepress the tripper pawl the jogging mechamsmwill not be operatedbecause during the time the printing device is riding over the pawl theroller 22 is operatively engaging the high part of the restoring cam 23,thereby preventingthe shaft 19 from rock- 'ing; but if the depression ofthe pawl iscon-v tinned a little longer by the presenceIof a tab on aprinting device the high part of the cam 23 will travel beyond theroller 22 permitting spring 20 to rock shaft19 and operate the joggingmechanism as hereinbefore de scribed. 1.

Our invention provides automatic mechanism for ogging a magazine beingdelivered after-the address is printed thereon to indicate the beginningor the ending of'a group of magazines, and this jogging mechanism iscaused to operate by a tab on the address rintin device. Therefore 7 theaddressed 1 i 2 magazines Wlll be grouped in exact accord ance with thetab classification of the address printing devices.

In the specifications we have referred, 101 convenience, to a magazineas the article addressed 1n the machlne but this isnot to be understoodas limiting the invention but should be construed as including anewspaper, a folder or any other article which may be used in connectionwith this'invention.

Changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of theparts of the invention without departing from the spirit or sacrificingthe advantages thereof and the right is hereby reserved to make all suchchanges as fairly fallwithin'the scope of the following claims:

We claim:

1. In a printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magazines to planting posit on, means for carrying theaddressed 'magazines from printing position, a jogger, means foroperatmg the ogger, means for actuating said operating means,and'atripper controlling said actuating means,. said tripper being adapted tobe operated by the printing devices as they pass to printingposition andsome of saidv devices being provided with tabst'o cause the operation ofthe, actuating means,

3. In a printing. machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magazines to printingpos1t1on,m eans for carrying theaddressed ,magazines from printing position, a jogger,-meansfor'o-perating the ogger, means for actuating said operating means, anda tripper controlling said actuatlng means, some of sa d printingdevices being provided with tabs, said tripper beingadapted to bereleased by the printing devices as they pass to printing position andthis release being prolonged by the, tabs to cause the operation of; theactuating means. 7

4. In a printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magazines to printing positiomuneans for carrying theaddressed magazines from printing position, a jogger, means foroperating the ogger, means for actuating said operating means, and atripper controlling said actuating means, some of said printing devicesbeing provided with tabs, said tripper being operated by each printingdevice as it passes toprinting position to release the actuating meansand said release being prolonged by each tab to cause operation of theactuating means.

5. In a'printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices andmagazines to printing-position, means forcarryingtheaddressed magazines from printing position, a jogger, meansfor operating the jogger, means for actuating said operating means, anda tripper controlling said actuating means, some of said printingdevices being provided with tabs, said tripper being operated by eachprinting device as it passes to printing position to release theactuating means, there being means, to prevent operation of theactuating means while the tripper is operated by aprinting devicewithout a tab but permitting operation of the actuating means when theoperation of the.

tripper is prolonged by the presence of a tab.

6. In a printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magazine sto printing position, means for carrying theaddressed magazines from printing position, a jogger, means foroperating the jogger, means for actuating said operating means, atripper controlling said actuating means, some of said printing devicesbeing provided with tabs, said tripper being operated by each printingdevice as it passes to printing position to release the actuating meansand this operation of the tripper and releasing of the actuating meansbeing prolonged by the presence of a tab, means to prevent operation ofthe actuating means While the tripper is operated by a printing devicewithout a tab, and means for causing operation of the actuating means atthe time that the operation of the tripper and release of the actuatingmeans is prolonged by the presence ofa tab.

7. In a printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magazines to printing position, means for carrying theaddressee magazines from printing position, a jogger, means, for operating the jogger, means for actuating said operating means andcomprising a cam, a tripper controlling said actuating means, some ofsaid printing devices being provided with tabs, said tripper beingoperated by each printing device as it passes to printing position torelease the actuating means, and this operation of the tripper andreleasing of the actuating means being prolonged by the presence of atab, said cam preventing operation of the actuating means While thetripper is operated by a printing device Without a tab and permittingoperation of the actuating means While the tripper is operated by a tabon a printing device.

8. In a printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magazines to printing position, means for carrying theaddressed magazines from printing position, a jogger, means foroperating the jogger, means for actuating said operating means andcomprising a cam, a tripper controlling said actuating means, some ofsaid printing devices being provided with tabs, said tripper beingoperated by each printing device as it passes to printing position torelease the actuating means, this operation of the tripper and releasingof the actuating means being prolonged by the presence of a tab, andconstantly ctive means for operating said actuating means, said campreventing operation of the actuating means while the tripper isoperated by a printing device Without a tab and permitting operation ofthe actuating means While the tripper is operated by a tab on a printingdevice.

9. In a printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magazines to printing position, means for carrying theaddressed magazines from printing position, a jogger, means foroperating the jogger, means for actuating said operating means andcomprising a cam, a tripper controlling said actuating means, some ofsaid printing devices being provided with tabs, said tripper beingoperated by each printing device as it passes to printing position torelease the actuating means, this operation of the tripper and releasingof the actuating means being prolonged by the presence of a tab, andconstantly active means for operating said actuating means, said campreventing operation of the actuating means while the tripper isoperated With a printing device Without a tab, and permitting operationof the actuating means While the tripper is operated by a tab on aprinting device and restoring the actuating means to initial positionafter it is operated.

10. In a printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magazines to printing position, means for carrying theaddressed magazines from printing position, a latch lever, a tripperengaging the latch lever and adapted to be operated by the printingdevice to release the latch lever, said tripper being operated by eachprinting device as it passes to printing position and this operationbeing prolonged by the presence of a tab on a printing device, a rockshaft, a jogger, means for operating the ogger, means operated by therock shaft for operating the jogger operating means, constantly activemeans connected to the latch lever for operating the rock shaft, and acam preventing operation of the rock shaft While the tripper is releasedfrom the latcn lever by a printing device Without a tab and permittingoperation. of the rock shaft While the tripper is held in releasedposition by a tab on a printing device.

11. In a printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magazines to printing position, means for carrying theaddressed magazines from printing position, a latch lev r, a tripperengaging the latch lever and adapted to be operated by the printingdevice to release the latch lever, said tripper being operated by eachprinting device as it pas, es to print ing position and this operationbeing prolonged by the presence of a tab on a printing device, a rockshaft, a jogger, means for operating the jogger, means operated by therock shaft for operating the jogger operating means, constantly activemeans connected to the latch lever for operating the rock shaft, a campreventing operation of the rock shaft While the tripper released fromthe latch lever by a printing device Without a tab and permittingoperation of the rock shaft While the tripper is sold in releasedposition by a tab on a printing the operation of the jogger. V v 12. Inaprinting machine having means device, and means operative bysaid camfor restoring the parts to initial positionafter for feeding addressprinting devices and magazines to prlnting position, means for carryingthe addressed magazines from printlng position, a bodily movableogger,

a cam for operating the jogger to engage and jog a magazine, and meanscontrolled by a tab on a printing device for operating the jogger cam.

13. In a printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magazines to printingposition, means for carrying theaddressed magazines from printing position, a bodily movable jogger, aconstantly rotating shaft, a cam loosely mounted on the shaft foroperating the jogcam to the shaft, said means comprising asleeve rigidwith the shaft, a pawl pivotally mounted on the cam and adapted to makelocking engagement with the sleeve,"means for holding the pawl out ofengagement with the sleeve, means for releasing the pawl, and means forcausing the pawl when released to engage the sleeve.

15. In a printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magazines to printing position, means for carrying theaddressed magazines from printing position, a jogger, a constantlyrotating shaft, a cam loosely mounted on the shaft for operating thejogger, means controlled by a tab on a printing device for locking thejogger cam to the shaft, a restoring cam fixed to the shaft, and meansoperated by the restoring cam for releasing the jogger cam from theshaft.

16. In a printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magazines to printing position, means for carrying theaddressed magazines from printing position, a jogger, a constantlyrotating shaft, a cam loosely mounted on the shaft for operating thejogger, means for locking the jogger cam to the shaft, another cam fixedto the shaft, a rock shaft, means controlled by a tab on a printingdevice for operating the rock shaft, and means controlled by the rockshaft for causing said fixed cam to operate said lockin g means.

'17. In a printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magazines to printing position, means for carry ing. theaddressed magazines from print ing; position, a jogger, aconstantlyrotating shaft, a cam loosely mounted on the shaftforjoperating the jogger, means for locking the jogger cam to the shaft,another cam fixed to the shaft, a roclr shaft, means controlled by a tabon a printing device for operating the rock shaft, means controlled by.the rock shaft for causing said fixed'cam to'o'perate said lockingmeans, and means connected with the rock shaft and operated by saidfixed cam for restoring the parts to initial'position. l

18. In aprinting machine having means for feeding addressprintingdevices and magzines to printing position, a bed, means for carrying theaddressed magazine from printing position and over the bed, and meanscon trolled by a tab on a printing device for j ogging the magazinebearing an impression from said tabbed printing device and comprising ajogger, and a lever pivotally connected to the jogger andoperable tomove the jogger forward to engage and jog the magazine and back toinitial position. l

i 19. In a printingmachine having means for feeding address printingdevices and mag- V azines .to printing position, means for-carrying theaddressed magazines from printing position, a latch lever, a tripperengaging the latch lever and adapted to be operated by a printing deviceto release the latch lever, said tripper being operated by each printingdevice as it passes to printing position and this operation beingprolonged by the presence of a tab on a printing device, a rock shaft, arod connected to said latch lever and said rock shaft, a continuouslyrotating shaft, a jogger cam loosely mounted on said continuouslyrotating shaft, a sleeve fixed to said continuously rotating shaft andhaving a'slot therein, a jogger lever adapted to v to be reciprocatedduring rotation of the jogger cam, ajpawl pivoted on the jogger cam,means operated by'the rock shaft to cause the pawl to engage said slotandlock thejogger cam to the shaft, and a jogger pivotally connected tosaid jogger lever for jogging the magazine which received an impressionfrom the printing device carrying the tab which caused the operation ofthe jogging mechanism.

20. In a printing machine having means for feeding address printingdevices and magzines to printing position, means for carrying theaddressed magazines from printing position, a latch lever, atripperengaging the latch lever and adapted to be operated by a printing deviceto release the latch lever, said tripper being operated by each printingdevice as it passes to printing position and this operation beingprolonged by the presence of a tab on a printing device, a rock shaft, arod connected to said latch lever and said rock shaft, a continuouslyrotating shaft, a j ogger cam loosely mounted on said continuouslyrotating shaft, a sleeve fixed to said continuously rotating shaft andhaving a slot therein, a jogger lever adapted 5 to be reciprocatedduring rotation of the jogger cam, a pawl pivoted on the jogger cam,means operated by the rock shaft to cause the pawl to engage said slotand lock the jogger cam to the shaft, a ogger pivotally connected tosaid jogger lever for jogging the magazine which received an impressionfrom the printing device carrying the tab which caused the operation ofthe jogging mechanisln and a cam fixed to said constantly rotating shaftand operating to release the jogger cam from said shaft and restore theparts to initial position.

JOSEPH S. DUNCAN. HENRY E. HUBBARD.

